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paul_size

The Challenges (and Future) of Networked Learning ~ Stephen's Web - 2 views

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  • djplaner on 05 Sep 14
     
    Presentation from Stephen Downes (slides and audio) - the abstract A conversation about challenges (and future?) of networked learning. A broad understanding of the meaning and potential of networked learning can help educational institutions to rethink their role beyond the provision of LMS and centralized information systems. What skills are needed? What happens if we don't develop them? What kind of technology supports the development of said skills? What's the relation between this and issues of information property and citizenship in a digital context (POSSE models, Indie web movement)?
  • paul_size on 11 Sep 14
     
    The future of networked learning
Anne Trethewey

David Weinberger: Too Big To Know | ... My heart's in Accra - 1 views

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  • David warns, we still tend to think of knowledge in the ways we did when books had to sit on a single place on the shelf, when knowledge had a single, possible, right form, rather than multiple forms.
    • paul_size
      paul_size on 07 Sep 14
       
      Interesting to see how the perceived information overload may be attributed to the way we tend to think of knowledge.
  • This doesn’t mean there are no facts – but it does mean that people are going to insist on being wrong.”
  • David is actually quite concerned about difference, and just how much difference we can tolerate and still interact and function.
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  • He acknowledges that there’s a human tendency towards homophily, flocking together in groups united by race, gender, belief, socioeconomic status, etc.
  • This can lead to a serious challenge to public discourse – echo chambers that can solidify beliefs, making them more extreme and
  • polarized.
  • ooking for solutions and common ground by trying to get to the facts.
  • To have a good conversation, you need to have 99% similarity and 1% difference.
  • When data.gov released sets of government information, they didn’t clean or normalize it ahead of time – they released raw data. They concluded that it was better to put the data out there than to constrain themselves to information that was consistent and known, for the simple reason that this constraint would have slowed them down badly. Darwin would not have agreed – he spent seven years on one fact.
  • It may be the one approach that’s scaleable
  • why were old knowledge systems so fragile?
  • hese systems assumed knowledge was bounded, settled, orderly and proceeded step by step. But that’s not what knowledge feels like in the age of the internet. It feels unbounded, overwhelming, unsettled, messy, linked and governed by our interests. And those properties are the properties of what it means to be human in the world.
  • raditionally, we’ve handled this by breaking off a brain-sized chunk of the world and getting an expert to understand it. Once we’ve got that expert, we can stop asking questions: we simply ask the expert. Experts, and the credentials that create them, are stopping points. They’re points beyond which we don’t need to look any further.
    • Anne Trethewey
      Anne Trethewey on 11 Sep 14
       
      Gatekeeping
  • it challenges our notion of what knowledge is, and introduces the uncomfortable question of how we navigate this new space
  • We tend to assume that knowledge gives us an accurate picture of the world, built up bit by bit, fact by fact. In acquiring knowledge, we nail down each piece with certainty. And we see knowledge as a product of filtering and winnowing – we move from perception to true perception, from a mob of opinion to true belief. Knowledge is about finding gold within the flux.
  • The manifestations of knowledge are at risk, and all it took was the touch of a hyperlink.
  • Links are a new form of punctuation
  • The internet is an environment that’s all about connection and our knowledge is picking up properties of the medium. Knowledge in this space is characterized by the fact that it’s “too much, messy, unsettled, and unstructured”.
  • We don’t just have a lot of information – the information is very messy
  • In a digital age, we simply make playlists. We end up with a mess of information, but it’s a rich and fertile mess.
  • Messiness is an essential feature of how we scale meaning.
  • Moynihan said “everyone is entitled to his own opinion, not his own facts”
  • releasing raw data and letting individuals and groups clean, analyze and share what they find
Anne Trethewey

Social Media and the 'Spiral of Silence' | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Li... - 2 views

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  • A major insight into human behavior from pre-internet era studies of communication is the tendency of people not to speak up about policy issues in public—or among their family, friends, and work colleagues—when they believe their own point of view is not widely shared. This tendency is called the “spiral of silence.
  • Not only were social media sites not an alternative forum for discussion, social media users were less willing to share their opinions in face-to-face settings.
  • The traditional view of the spiral of silence is that people choose not to speak out for fear of isolation
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  • People also say they would speak up, or stay silent, under specific conditions.
  • Their confidence in how much they know.
  • The intensity of their opinions.
  • Their level of interest.
  • djplaner on 04 Sep 14
     
    Social media (network learning) doesn't always change everything. Again perhaps the fear of being "wrong" in public is factor? Being different is hard
  • laurac75 on 06 Sep 14
     
    I found this article really interesting - particularly the hierarchy of relationships in which people were comfortable sharing their views - family, then friends, then colleagues and then facebook or twitter. To me, this suggests that discussions are most likely to occur in situations where people are confident of being accepted regardless of their views on an individual topic. This has interesting implications for teaching - and links in with some of the literature on creating "safe" learning environments. However, I wonder whether we need more of an emphasis on building/strengthening relationships between students - and what implications this has for group sizes, and how we manage learners.
Anne Trethewey

Connected Learning: Reimagining the Experience of Education in the Information Age - 1 views

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  • the idea of a learning ecology, within which learning occurs everywhere, and with their goal to remove some of the obstacles which block the flow of information, knowledge, skills, and wisdom between different sectors.
  • ocus here on participation — in the learning process, in the governance of society — since the struggle to achieve a more participatory culture remains one of the central battles of our times.
  • the focus is on valuing the kinds of learning that children and youth value, the kind that is deeply motivating and tied in meaningful ways to their construction of their identity, recognizing that the goal of education in the 21st century should be in allowing young people to discover and refine their own expertise as they follow their passions and inform their interests
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  • he concept of “connected learning” remains a “work in progress,” and the best way to make progress is for thoughtful people, across a range of fields, to read, debate, and respond to their provocation and for those of us who find something here to value, to try to put its core principles into play through our work.
  • Connected learning is not, however, distinguished by a particular technology or platform, but is inspired by an initial set of three educational values, three learning principles, and three design principles
  • Equity — when educational opportunity is available and accessible to all young people, it elevates the world we all live in. Full Participation — learning environments, communities, and civic life thrive when all members actively engage and contribute. Social connection — learning is meaningful when it is part of valued social relationships and shared practice, culture, and identity.
  • Interest-powered – Interests power the drive to acquire knowledge and expertise. Research shows that learners who are interested in what they are learning, achieve higher order learning outcomes. Connected learning does not just rely on the innate interests of the individual learner, but views interests and passions as something to be actively developed in the context of personalized learning pathways that allow for specialized and diverse identities and interests. Peer-supported – Learning in the context of peer interaction is engaging and participatory. Research shows that among friends and peers, young people fluidly contribute, share, and give feedback to one another, producing powerful learning. Connected learning research demonstrates that peer learning need not be peer-isolated. In the context of interest-driven activity, adult participation is welcomed by young people. Although expertise and roles in peer learning can differ based on age and experience, everyone gives feedback to one another and can contribute and share their knowledge and views. Academically oriented – Educational institutions are centered on the principle that intellectual growth thrives when learning is directed towards academic achievement and excellence. Connected learning recognizes the importance of academic success for intellectual growth and as an avenue towards economic and political opportunity. Peer culture and interest-driven activity needs to be connected to academic subjects, institutions, and credentials for diverse young people to realize these opportunities. Connected learning mines and translates popular peer culture and community-based knowledge for academic relevance.
  • Shared purpose — Connected learning environments are populated with adults and peers who share interests and are contributing to a common purpose. Today’s social media and web-based communities provide exceptional opportunities for learners, parents, caring adults, teachers, and peers in diverse and specialized areas of interest to engage in shared projects and inquiry. Cross-generational learning and connection thrives when centered on common interests and goals. Production-centered — Connected learning environments are designed around production, providing tools and opportunities for learners to produce, circulate, curate, and comment on media. Learning that comes from actively creating, making, producing, experimenting, remixing, decoding, and designing, fosters skills and dispositions for lifelong learning and productive contributions to today’s rapidly changing work and political conditions. Openly networked – Connected learning environments are designed around networks that link together institutions and groups across various sectors, including popular culture, educational institutions, home, and interest communities. Learning resources, tools, and materials are abundant, accessible and visible across these settings and available through open, networked platforms and public-interest policies that protect our collective rights to circulate and access knowledge and culture. Learning is most resilient when it is linked and reinforced across settings of home, school, peer culture and community.
  • The urgent need to reimagine education grows clearer by the day. Research has shown that too many students are disengaged and alienated from school, and see little or no purpose to their education
  • The principles of connected learning weren’t born in the digital age, but they are extraordinarily well-suited to it. Connected learning seeks to tie together the respected historical body of research on how youth best learn with the opportunities made available through today’s networked and digital media
  • Connected learning is real-world. It’s social. It’s hands-on. It’s active. It’s networked. It’s personal. It’s effective
  • djplaner on 30 Aug 14
     
    A description of some American academics getting together on the idea of connected learning. The post describes the values and principles underpinning their conception of connected learning.
Anne Trethewey

9/15-9/28 Unit 1: Why We Need a Why | Connected Courses - 1 views

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  • the “whats” to be learned
  • We usually start by addressing the “What” question first
  • If we have time, we address the “How” question by considering how we can best teach the material
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  • we rush into the semester, rarely asking, “Why?”
  • Starting with “Why” changes everything.
  • As Neil Postman has noted, you can try to engineer the learning of what-bits (The End of Higher Education, Postman), but “to become a different person because of something you have learned — to appropriate an insight, a concept, a vision, so that your world is altered — is a different matter. For that to happen, you need a reason.”
  • So what is the real “why” of your course? Why should students take it? How will they be changed by it? What is your discipline’s real “why”? Why does it matter that students take __________ courses or become _________ists? How can digital and networked technologies effectively support the real why of your course?
  • djplaner on 09 Sep 14
     
    Intro page to week one of Connected Courses. The connection here to what we're doing in NGL is the text from Mike Wesch - "Why we need a why" It connects with course design - not a big leap from there to what you're doing "as teacher" in NGL - and talks about the importance of why
debliriges

A New Architecture for Learning (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE.edu - 0 views

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  • lty, and students.
  • Most of the technologies and applications shown in Figure 1 are on campuses already. The problem is that they are not easily and
  • seamlessly integrated
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  • e expected to be
  • The following are several specific examples of what the open standards and services must enable to make this new architecture for learning a reality: Digital content and applications must be easily, quickly (ideally, within a few minutes versus months), and seamlessly integrated into any platform that supports a set of vendor-neutral open standards and, importantly, are not trapped inside a single platform. User, course, and context information must be synchronized among selected applications so that neither the manual transfer of information nor multiple logins to different applications are required—thus making set-up and use of new software much easier for all concerned. Data that describes usage, activities, and outcomes must flow from learning content apps to the enterprise system of record, learning platforms, and analytics platforms. Systems, services, and tools must be virtualized and must increasingly move toward the elastic computing model that enables sharing scenarios across systems or other federations of users.Imagine what would happen if CIOs could safely add services and applications in a matter of days instead of months, if instructors could seamlessly combine these tools into their courses with one click, and if analytics data would begin to flow immediately thereafter. This new IT architecture would revolutionize the support for academic technology in the same way that the app movement has revolutionized what is available on mobile devices. A key difference with the new IT architecture, however, is that these educational apps are built using standards adopted and managed by the educational community and would be connected into the educational enterprise IT infrastructure.
  • The rise of the MOOC illustrates how important innovations often happen outside of established channels: by faculty who, interested in innovation, put together their own technology solutions outside their college or university. This should be a wake-up call for the higher education community to do better. Enterprise IT organizations need to enable such innovation, not stand in its way.
  • debliriges on 11 Sep 14
     
    If we are to support students and faculty as connected learners and instructors, we must rethink our approach to academic technology architecture. At the foundation and core of that architecture is information technology, in its role as the strategic enabler of connected learning.
paul_size

Deutsche Post DHL | Partnership Teach For All - 0 views

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    "As part of our commitment, we provide support to the worldwide Teach For All parent organization as well as to seven national organizations in Germany, India, Argentina, Peru, Chile, Spain and the Philippines. " As part of our commitment, we provide support to the worldwide Teach For All parent organization as well as to seven national organizations in Germany, India, Argentina, Peru, Chile, Spain and the Philippines.
paul_size

Welcome to the School of YouTube: #LaughLearnGive - YouTube - 1 views

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  • paul_size on 10 Sep 14
     
    A bit of a laugh on the school of YouTube
debliriges

Padagogy Wheel; SAMR Model; using iPads in L&T - 1 views

www.unity.net.au/...edublog

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  • debliriges on 10 Sep 14
     
    Padagogy Wheel is about transformation and integration Learning design; graduate attributes; capabilities and motivation Site links to article 'Integrate iPads into Bloom's Digital Taxonomy';
djplaner

A hard drive of ones own « Lisa's (Online) Teaching & History Blog - 0 views

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  • djplaner on 10 Sep 14
     
    A response to the "Beyond the LMS" post from someone who's more of a practitioner and has had experience of both open and walled gardens
djplaner

Beyond the LMS - 0 views

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  • djplaner on 10 Sep 14
     
    Notes and slides from a presentation entitled "Beyond the LMS" may have some interesting perspectives for those thinking about the need for "walled gardens" in high school (and elsewhere). There's a response to this that I'll share next. Audrey Watters - the author of this presentation - provides an interesting and through provoking perspective on all things educational technology. A useful alternative to some of the more common, but less critical perspectives.
Kath Gregory

Untitled - 2 views

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  • Kath Gregory on 09 Sep 14
     
    I found this blog, its not really about NGL but I guess a warning to us all :) and I found it a really interesting read
ggdines

Reducing the digital literacy divide through disruptive innovation | Simon McIntyre - A... - 0 views

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  • ggdines on 09 Sep 14
     
    This article suggests that educators in HE can generate systemic change by engaging in open and informal professional development outside and beyond their own institutions. An interesting read for anyone in a support role in Higher Education.
ggdines

Half an Hour: Connectivism and the Primal Scream - 2 views

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  • Indeed, so long as you think of knowledge and learning as something to be acquired and measured and tested - instead of practiced and lived and experienced - you will be dissatisfied with connectivist learning. And - for that matter - there's probably a limit to how far you can advance in traditional education as well, because (to my experience) everybody who achieves a high degree of expertise in a field has advanced well beyond the idea that it's just information and skills and things to learn. Kind of like Dreyfus and Dreyfus said.
    • ggdines
      ggdines on 09 Sep 14
       
      Perhaps EDU8117 is attempting both - "something to be acquired and measured and tested" and "practiced, lived and experienced". That might be where my discomfort lies and perhaps also what Keith Brennan is articulating in his article.
  • ggdines on 09 Sep 14
     
    A response to Keith Brennans article 
muzedujourney

What We Miss by Comparing MOOCs to Traditional Classrooms | DMLcentral - 1 views

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  • muzedujourney on 09 Sep 14
     
    An article that looks at MOOC's as an extension to the traditional library rather than the classroom.
paul_size

May « 2014 « Too Big to Know - 0 views

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  • And one thing I’ve learned is that everything is interesting if looked at at the appropriate level of detail. Now, it used to be that you’d have to seek out places to plunge in over your head. But now, in the age of the Internets, all we have to do is stand still and the flood waters rise over our heads. We usually call this “information overload,” and we’re told to fear it. But I think that’s based on an old idea we need to get rid of. Here’s what I mean. So, you know Flickr, the photo sharing site? If you go there and search for photos tagged “vista,” you’ll get two million photos, more vistas than you could look at if you made it your full time job. If you go to Google and search for apple pie recipes, you’ll get over 1.3 million of them. Want to try them all out to find the best one. Not gonna happen. If you go to Google Images and search for “cute cats,” you’ll get over seven million photos of the most adorable kittens ever, as well as some ads and porn, of course, because Internet. So that’s two million vista photos. 1.3 million apple pie recipes. 7.6 million cute cat photos. We’re constantly warned about information overload, yet we never hear one word single word about the dangers of Vista Overload, Apple Pie Overload, or Cute Kitten overload. How have the media missed these overloads! It’s a scandal!
    • paul_size
      paul_size on 07 Sep 14
       
      How's this for information overload.
  • For example, in the old days if you watched the daily half hour broadcast news or spent twenty minutes with a newspaper, you had done your civic duty: you had kept up with The News. Now we can see before our eyes what an illusion that sense of mastery was. There’s too much happening on our diverse and too-interesting planet to master it, and we can see it all happening within our browsers
  • t Wikipedia, the articles are often relatively short, but they typically have dozens or even hundreds of links. So rather than trying to get everything about, say, Shakespeare into a couple of thousand words, Wikipedia lets you click on links to other articles about what it mention — to Stratford-on-Avon, or iambic pentameter, or about the history of women in the theater.
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  • And it’s not just the quantity of information that makes true mastery impossible in the Age of the I
  • And just one more thing about these messy webs. They’re full of disagreement, contradiction, argument, differences in perspective. Just a few minutes on the Web reveals a fundamental truth: We don’t agree about anything. And we never will. My proof of that broad statement is all of human history. How do you master a field, even if you could define its edges, when the field doesn’t agree with itself?
    • traceymcgrath
      traceymcgrath on 08 Sep 14
       
      Maybe this means we need to be teaching totally different things - critical thinking, flexibility, the ability to evaluate and tolerate different ideas and influencing skills.
djplaner

MOOCs as Neocolonialism: Who Controls Knowledge? - WorldWise - Blogs - The Chronicle of... - 0 views

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  • But I do believe it is important to point out that a powerful emerging educational movement strengthens the currently dominant academic culture, perhaps making it more difficult for alternative voices to be heard.
  • djplaner on 08 Sep 14
     
    One of the critiques of MOOCs that perhaps can be applied to broader ideas of NGL - or at least need to be considered. In particular this links to the under-developed aspect of NGL in this course - global learning.
djplaner

Connected Learning: An Agenda for Research and Design | DML Hub - 2 views

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  • djplaner on 08 Sep 14
     
    Link to an eBook produced by the "connected learning" folk that aims to provide "An Agenda for Research and Design". Narrows the definition of networked learning to connected learning defined as "is realized when a young person is able to pursue a personal interest or passion with the support of friends and caring adults, and is in turn able to link this learning and interest to academic achievement, career success or civic engagement."
djplaner

OpenKnowledge Course Info | Stanford Online - 0 views

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  • djplaner on 08 Sep 14
     
    Stanford University open course "OpenKnowledge - Changing the Global Course of Learning".
paul_size

shelflife records - 0 views

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  • paul_size on 07 Sep 14
     
    Shelflife, the tool Harvard's Library Lab has created to allow users to browse the vast set of information in Harvard's library systems.
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